Medicina practica, or, Practical physick : containing the way of curing the more eminent and usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : whereunto is annexed, 1. The preparation of the praecipiolum of Paracelsus; 2. The key of Helmont and Lully; 3. The opening of Sol and Luna (1692)
Author: Salmon, William, 1644-1713; Hermes, Trismegistus. De lapidis philosophici secreto. English; Jabir ibn Hayyan. Summa perfectionis. English; Artephius. Liber secretus artis occultae. English; Flamel, Nicolas, d. 1418. Figures hierogliphiques. English; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Radix mundi. English; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Medulla alchimiae. English; Khalid ibn Yazid al-Umawi, 7th cent. Secreta alchymiae. English
Subject: Alchemy; Medicine
Publisher: London : Printed by W. Bonny : for T. Howkins ... : and J. Harris
Year: 1692
Language: English
Call number: 375192
Digitizing sponsor: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute
Book contributor: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute
Collection: gettyalchemy; getty; americana
Notes: Narrow margins. Gutter included to avoid cropping text. Some text is impossible to capture. Foxing.
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First section of Book 1 contains receipts and advice on treating diseases. The remainder of the work consists of translated alchemical treatises. See Hogart
Books 2 and 3 have special t.p.'s. Book 2 entitled: Clavis alchymiae, or, Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, and Geber Arabs ... Book 3 entitled: Artephii liber secretus ..
The 4 engravings after p. 334 are entitled: Geber's fornaces. The 4 engravings (some hand watercoloring) after p. 520 are entitled: Flammel's Hieroglyphicks, Tab. I-IV
Errata, p. [25]
Hogart, R. Alchemy
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